Video processing blocks are essential to today's consumer products as well as other applications in the industrial, computer, and communications industries. Today's devices include tuners, highly integrated AFEs, processors, and SoCs with multiple demodulator outputs. Advancing technology changes include conversion of cable or satellite video content to IP accessible media so that users can view content on other devices, such as smart phones and tablets, as well as single chip solutions providing multi-channel applications.

These new products are continuing to be optimized for the lowest power consumption at lower price points, while integrating multiple interface standards to advance tuner applications in televisions and set top boxes.The overall the consumer market is expected to be flat this year; however, there has been opportunity for suppliers that are serving OEM customers that are currently gaining share at the expense of some of the Japanese brands. Companies such as Samsung and LG have been particularly successful in gaining share in 2012.

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